Debbie Palen

"When ten-year-old Roosevelt Banks discovers that his two best friends are planning a bike & camping trip, he wants more than anything to go along. There's just one problem--he doesn't have a bike. Roosevelt's parents agree to buy him a new bike if he can manage to be good for two whole weeks. How can Roosevelt be good and be the same fun guy his friends want on the camping trip?"-- Provided by publisher.

The first day of school becomes chaotic when third-grader Will's younger brother, Steve, arrives for kindergarten.

The principal bakes a gingerbread kid. He puts on eyes, a nose, and a mouth. The gingerbread kid runs away. Can they catch him? Based on the folk tale, The gingerbread boy.

Explains what happens at the onset of menstruation, discussing what to wear, going to the gynecologist, and how to handle various problems.

When ten-year-old Andrew invents a shrinking machine, he does not expect to be sucked into the machine along with his cousin Judy, only to end up in a dog's nose.

When Steve befriends David, the new kid at school, he tells David to do what he does, but his plan backfires when David begins copying everything, from Steve's clothes to his lunch.

Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot, having been shrunk by a shrinking machine, encounter many terrifying creatures, including Mrs. Scuttle, as they try to reach the Atom Sucker before it explodes.